Sentence examples for old understandings from inspiring English sources

In the second, when formal contracts started to appear alongside the old understandings, a lender assessed a borrower's creditworthiness "at least partly on the basis of exposure to the community".

Re "Israelis Say Obama Is Ignoring Old Understandings on Settlement 'Freeze' " (news article, June 4): Let us remember first that the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem are occupied territories under international law and Security Council resolutions.

In a new audiotape, Osama bin Laden condemned Mr. Obama for planting what he called new seeds of "hatred and vengeance" among Muslims, while in Jerusalem, senior Israeli officials complained that Mr. Obama was rewriting old understandings by taking a harder line against existing Israeli settlements.

More radically, does Occupy indicate a radical departure from old understandings of ideology versus identity, and refocus political attention on "meaning, action, and feeling" (Protevi 2011) or on the significance of embodied action in shared space (Butler 2011)?

Old understandings, old structures and old patterns are dissolving as clarity and vision are emerging.

"It's our job to use them and I think in using them, we find these old understandings really don't work anymore".

Eight million layoffs later, the old understanding is dead.

In the build-up to the 2015 election, I saw vivid proof of how fundamentally this erodes the left's old understanding of its bond with its supporters.

In the old understanding of pre-emption, they argue, a country could see an army massing and then decide whether to strike in advance.

The old understanding of perception is what neuroscientists call "the naïve view," and it is the view that most people, in or out of medicine, still have.

"We've grown very fond of circus and everything that the genre entails," said Wood. "But we've tried to get away from the old understanding of what circus is – nasty big tops and animals and hack clowns and so on.